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Alina Szapocznikow Awkward Objects
ISBN: PB: 9788392404460, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
288 pp., 19x14 cm, 85 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! The volume entitled, "Alina Szapocznikow" is a collection of materials from the international conference "Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations". (May 15-16, 2009), which accompanied the exhibition organised...
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£22,00
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As Soon As. Open My Eyes. See a Film Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s
ISBN: PB: 9788392404439, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
344 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 120 halftones, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in Poland! "As soon as I open my eyes I see a film – Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s", edited by Ana Janevski, discussed the key moments in the history of the Yugoslav art scene. In the late 60s and 70s, artists rejected...
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Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing
ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones
Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...
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£26,50
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£37,50
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Jan Koblasa Intaglio Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024618111, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2011
264 pp., 28x23 cm, 473 halftones, 40 colour illus.
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Koblasa has ranked among the leading figures of Czech and European art since the1960s. His sculptures have been integrated into many European cities, sacred spaces, and sculptors' park...
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£30,00
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Pamphilj and the Arts Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome
ISBN: PB: 9781892850171, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, July 2011
200 pp., 30.5x21.5 cm, 101 halftones, 15 colour illus.
In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the arts, which were harnessed as the visual expression of the family's new id...
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£34,00
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Afterall Summer 2011, Issue 27
ISBN: PB: 9781846380808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that not only offers in-depth consideration of contemporary art from around the world, but also insightful contextualization of works from a diverse array of artists. Articles on art history and cr...
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£7,50
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Bookwork Medium to Object to Concept to Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226773919, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
272 pp., 28.4x22.4 cm, 68 halftones, 12 colour illus.
"There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space – those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as r...
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Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break II
ISBN: PB: 9780936316314, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2011
96 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 125 halftones
This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project "Lunch Break" – a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine,...
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£22,50
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No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones
In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...
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Afterall Spring 2011, Issue 26
ISBN: PB: 9781846380754, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...
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